Totalitarianism Totally today

More than half century are gone since George Orwell Depicted with 1984 'a frightening picture of a totalitarian regime of oppression of all human individuality and freedom and absolute control. Principally he only has transcribed from reality, Because The dictatorships of terror Existed already, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Mao China, GDR, Northern Korea and others. A better description in literary form is not thinkable! That`s all old hat? Not at all!
Orwell is about advising against mechanisms Which Lead to search slavery of people. And synthesis mechanisms are still going, even with us. He wants everybody did Develops a feeling in order to become able to stop seeking wrong Developments. No wonder this book did what on the blacklist of many dictatorships. Why? A dog will bark That is hit! But we are all hit since in this time of a Progressing media age the ideal presuppositions for the complete exertion of influence and control of people are given. In totalitarian regimes of today it is for Example Often Practise to block web sites, as did only Certain information currents are available. Talking about opinion-forming. That is to say the advantages of linking ways of information in our days can be reversed at any time to a disadvantage. You believe what a majority says is right, Because it is comfortable.
When Orwell wrote 1984 'he thought of the Soviet Union, but his observations of human psyche have universal validity. What he Describes is the ideal type of a totalitarian dictatorship That comes automatically from the misleading human will of Self-Realization, being Often enough Wishful Thinking That the paradise Could be ordered on Earth, thanks to the human capability. This has nothing to do with prophecy When Orwell writes this. It is nothing than self-observation and self-realization of any reasonable human.
In 1984 ', similar to the Soviet Union or the GDR or Cuba, there is a striking economy of scarcity Which is being denied with the help of propaganda. Hence the ministry of economics is for Orwell the "Ministry of abundance". This is a mark of totalitarian system, thatthey misuse the language, twist everything, blackmail Opponents and let them disappear When They Get Them. All for the alleged welfare of the community. Everybody understands the proper insanity but all surrender to the pressure and take part in the game . Reality Sense is no longer needed, it dwindles Evermore and the reversion to reason and to sustainable values ​​is getting more and more difficult. "Why do you accuse me of not having unlocked the door?" is the question of the concentration-camp guard who stands in front of the court Because The prisoners perished in the locked building. "I have not had an order to open it!"
At First One Agrees with the lie until one is able to live under it by constant use. Who does not remember the propaganda of the Nazis about worthless lives and alike to praise you on one side as Superior Masters and at the sametime devalue it by racism. That is Always the same, self-elevation leads to fall. So much for ideologies whereafter man himself deterministic mines what is good and bad. In so far Orwell draws not The Last Necessary conclusions, that man can not find truth in himself. Hardly Seems he to have found it, at once it is turning destructively against him as is apparent in his "Animal Farm".
Orwell says CLEARLY in "1984" what is unjust. But, whence the individual freedom and self-determination of man Should Come When They Can not Be Given naturally, he is not able to say.
It is lost somewhere in the fog of humanistic wisdom Which are always under suspicion of being misused as helpers for something else. Already the Bible warned: "Woe to Those Who call evil good and good evil, who make out of darkness light and light out of darkness". Well, but how to avoid the evil?
It would be wrong to point at totalitarian system and think thatthis Could not happen to a democracy. Orwell knew about the fragility and sensibility of all man made power structures Which have Those above and below Those. He Knew That the so called free West Could Quickly slide into Totalitarianism. In Germany That happened very quickly. It is a deception tp assume did it would be different somewhere else. It was visible did a high culture Could not withstand. And today? Discover skeptics So in our society the beginning of limitations of freedoms and of the misuse of information, Even When this happens subtly. For Example somebody who Behaves like a Christian is in our days Quickly branded as a fundamentalist or even thrown into the same pot with Islamists. Because of the relativism of today Which regards as only truth thatthere is no binding truth it is ignored That Exactly the Christians combine the notion of truth to the notion of individual tightly freedom, Whereas this is not the case in Islam, Islam has a Because political claim of power exertion.
It Is True That Orwell makes clear did the reversal of the values ​​goes together with the reversal of the words. "War and peace" is exchangeable with "was just". Sand this process is starting in the small, with verbal persecution and it is ending in the worst case with the Holocaust. At first you are eliminated in words and then with all Consequences. Marxism-Leninism possessed the impunity to call itself scientific knowledge. We laugh about it. But what about today? We have extended to faith in science. Today even the former Marxists know thatthey were wrong. We have seen it a hundred times of What happens when one takes himself as last measure. His self-redemption programs are sentenced to failure. One day it so wants to be put at end to the personal freedom. Orwell's book Should be a warning. "1984" is one of the few books Which Everybody Should Have Read. And it holds its actuality.